NA PUA O HAWAI`I
One Man's Garden
by Michael F. O'Brien
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About the Book
I am convinced that I was born with a green thumb and an eye. Both of these gifts of birth have been further honed over the years.
I was born and raised on a dairy farm in the beautiful hills of NE Iowa. My father knew the names of plants and trees and taught them to me. My mother had a huge vegetable garden that I spent many hours in. I was also very into house plants and flower beds around the house, some of which I purchased myself with my allowance.
When I was in sixth grade my parents gave me a Brownie Hawkeye camera and I never looked back.. My senior year in high school I was the yearbook editor, as well as college yearbook editor. From there I was a high school yearbook Adviser for nine years. My camera was always at my side. My wife and I lived in a five floor walk up apartment for 25 years in Seoul, Korea and at the most I had 250 house plants. We lived in Korea for thirty-four years. I traveled the countryside and I published a book - FAR-REACHING FRAGRANCE - Photographs of Korea. When we retired to Hawaii's Big Island the camera came with me and the images in this book were all taken in my garden.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Home & Garden
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 96 - Publish Date: Sep 09, 2008
- Keywords Big Island, Hawaii, garden, flowers
About the Creator
Michael F. O'Brien lived and worked in Seoul, Korea from August of 1963 to June of 1997. He grew up on a dairy farm in the beautiful wooded hills of northeast Iowa. At age twenty-four he left the corn fields of Iowa for the rice paddies of Korea. Those rice paddies fascinated and excited him with their ever-changing patterns and through them he learned, also, to love the Iowa corn fields he had left behind. He is a retired art and photography teacher from Seoul American High School in Yongsan, 8th U.S. Army, in Seoul, Korea. Mr. O'Brien's credits include Far-Reaching Fragrance - Photographs of Korea, a collection in coffee table book form of photographic insights into traditional Korea. He has also co-authored a high school photography text, The Photographic Eye - Learning To See With A Camera. 1984 - John F. Kennedy Center Fellow for Teachers of the Arts.